tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post8147007170380399388..comments2024-03-13T07:34:24.149+00:00Comments on The Age of Uncertainty: The Nice and the GoodSteerforthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07627936539372313828noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-4001710942885028702009-08-01T09:35:12.731+00:002009-08-01T09:35:12.731+00:00Yes, Dustbin Baby was superb!Yes, Dustbin Baby was superb!Steerforthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07627936539372313828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-82915724107079914252009-07-24T14:35:43.293+00:002009-07-24T14:35:43.293+00:00I agree to some degree about CBeebies, though I th...I agree to some degree about CBeebies, though I think it's fairly ok at that age to paint the world as rosy. I think things are different over on CBBC. There's a host of interesting dramas, including the long-lasting Tracey Beaker, which emphasises the ups and downs of children placed in care: no one is painted as perfect. I also saw with my eight year old daughter another Jacqueline Wilson-penned piece called Dustbin Baby, about the travails of a young girl who was placed in care after her mother, abused and beaten by her father, kills herself. Is that enough 'edge' for you. I have to admit I thought it might be a bit much for her, but it doesn't seem to have caused her sleepless nights.<br />On the subject of Pingu, I recall an episode in which the penguin gets shat upon by a passing gull, but helps it to escape from trouble - and as it flies away it shits on Pingu's head again. I think the moral of that story was pretty grey, and very funny.Tyrone Shoelaceshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01448449951300241327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-70423474946886789672009-03-27T17:14:00.000+00:002009-03-27T17:14:00.000+00:00Ahem, fewer attacks on we much-maligned white midd...Ahem, fewer attacks on we much-maligned white middle-class people if you don't mind Steerforth! T'was they/we what wrote the thrilling stuff about good/evil naughty/good children/anarchic Tom & Jerry cartoons not so long ago, was it not?<BR/><BR/>Frankly I blame the Liberal hand-wringing element for watering everything down to this diet of bland nicey niceyness. No help to children at all as how are they supposed to cope with the real world if they don't know from the start that they will encouter evil out there and how to deal with/outwit it?The Poet Laura-eatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07779308486569849157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-62581921624873266812009-03-26T13:41:00.000+00:002009-03-26T13:41:00.000+00:00The Wiggles - NOOOOOOO!!! I hated them with a veng...The Wiggles - NOOOOOOO!!! I hated them with a vengeance when my daughter was toddling. And the Balamory songs have now re-surfaced from the depths of my brain - I'm singing along with Archie again. Thank you very much!<BR/><BR/>Our joint favourite was Kipper with Martin Clunes doing the main voice.Annabel Gaskellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12210341270502698508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-56727884005286453022009-03-24T05:53:00.000+00:002009-03-24T05:53:00.000+00:00Understand your ambivalence. Rest assured that hu...Understand your ambivalence. Rest assured that human nature, for better or worse, is irrepressible. A minor classic on this is "Boys and Girls: Superheroes in the Doll Corner", by Vivian Gussin Paley.Bretthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09389916070547430075noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-558577759439092512009-03-23T13:25:00.001+00:002009-03-23T13:25:00.001+00:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-71210443565658598952009-03-23T13:25:00.000+00:002009-03-23T13:25:00.000+00:00Hmm, Barnaby Bear still exists...as in where in th...Hmm, Barnaby Bear still exists...as in where in the world is he? But it most certainly is not the same. And he has a very squeaky accent these days.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-50098319664367556562009-03-23T11:57:00.000+00:002009-03-23T11:57:00.000+00:00When I used to work for *cough*waterstones*cough* ...When I used to work for *cough*waterstones*cough* we had a gigantic cardboard standee of the mad-eyed Miss Hoolie which creeped us all out to the point where we had to draw sunglasses on her in felt tip because her eyes REALLY DID FOLLOW YOU ROUND THE ROOM. Freakish.<BR/>Whatever happened to Barbapappa, Ludwig and Barnaby the Bear??Lucy Fishwifehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12468092971495182126noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-42869406276707718172009-03-23T08:11:00.000+00:002009-03-23T08:11:00.000+00:00Cbeebies on tap is enough to drive anyone loopy......Cbeebies on tap is enough to drive anyone loopy...I'm afraid to say we've moved on to some advert telly - Sonic on Pop, and Trollz on Popworld. And neither of my two can standblinkin Balamory either..What's the story possibly the worst invention ever.<BR/>CBBC can be a bit naughtier too - We like to watch fat children fall down/off things in Raven (so mean!) and children trick each other in the witchy cave programme.<BR/>But as for Tom and Jerry - Ol and J know they are banned from watching it until they are 18. Poor things!<BR/>Oh - and as for Pingu,- my favourite episode is the mythological one where he gets drunk and wees on the floor. ClassicAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-14105815148230808922009-03-23T02:30:00.000+00:002009-03-23T02:30:00.000+00:00What about Pingu? Isn't he a CBeebies staple? Alth...What about Pingu? Isn't he a CBeebies staple? Although not in the Tom and Jerry league he can be pretty naughty, his Dad is a postman and there are no ethnic minority or disabled characters!<BR/><BR/>I did find it hilarious when one of the mothers at my son's playgroup told us earnestly that she never let her children watch Pingu because he was such a bad example. Needless to say my two sons can't get enough of him ...geographyofhopehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13185840335356827843noreply@blogger.com